What a Week!

Things here are great. On Valentines day last week we treated ourselves to Tucano's. It's a Brazilian steak place. It was a pretty good day. It's been a good week though. We had a baptism on Saturday of a 15-year-old kid named Dylan. He's the brother of the girl we baptized a few weeks ago. It went great, everything went smoothly. And yesterday we had the baptism of Maddy and Chloe, the 2 girls we've been working with in Randolph. So we spent all of Sunday up in Randolph and Woodruff. We went to a PEC meeting up there and for the first half hour we talked about how the girls basketball team won state in the 1A division. So that was fun talking about sports for a long time... not really. But the baptism was amazing. I think every baptism should be like this one. We had everything set up in the Relief Society room for the baptism. A few minutes before it was scheduled to start we had to switch it to the chapel because there were so many people there. The older girl, Maddy, was so nervous about it all so it was fun watching her be stressed out about it. But everything went smoothly with it as well. The only thing we had to do as missionaries was bear our testimonies. They're such a great family. So we were able to have 3 baptisms this weekend. We've truly been blessed. Follow up on the miracle from last week about the kids whose dad wouldn't let them get baptized. They had their visit and we wrote up a consent form, but he wouldn't sign it because it wasn't the official one from the church. So we're working on getting that done, and hopefully getting it to him as soon as we can. And the other girl we've been working with, Kayla, is struggling. She knows it's true and has felt the Spirit in the lessons, but I think she's afraid of the answer she'll get. But she's keeping most of the commitments, other than praying to know if the things we've taught are true and praying to know if she should get baptized. So that's a little tough, but the Young womens president is helping us out so much. She's answering her questions, encouraging her, and helping her out. So we're hoping to see a miracle with that. This weekend we have a kid preparing to be baptized and confirmed as well. And we're hoping that the other kids dad will let them get baptized this week. So when I write home next week I'll be telling y'all about the two baptisms we had. The work is going along great. I love it. I love this gospel and I know it's true. I know this is the work of the Lord. I love y'all, miss y'all, and pray for y'all. I hope y'all have a great week!